I don't visit here often but when I see the new members/new posts numbers and then look at the newish posts in the forums, I can't do the math. It seems like there should be many, many more posts... somewhere?

I've never visited the chat areas but I wouldn't think that chats would be counted as posts?

Which forum/sub-forum is the most popular, generates the most posts? I don't have any interest in diagnosis-specific forums with which I can't identify. I don't mean that to sound crass or to imply that I'm not sympathetic to others, I'm just having a hard time trying to live with my own symptoms.

Just wondering...

I think Relationships and Communications forum and Cope with Emotions forum (beside Social Chat forum) generate most of the posts

[otherg]

Originally Posted by ciderguy

I don't visit here often but when I see the new members/new posts numbers and then look at the newish posts in the forums, I can't do the math. It seems like there should be many, many more posts... somewhere?

I've never visited the chat areas but I wouldn't think that chats would be counted as posts?

Which forum/sub-forum is the most popular, generates the most posts? I don't have any interest in diagnosis-specific forums with which I can't identify. I don't mean that to sound crass or to imply that I'm not sympathetic to others, I'm just having a hard time trying to live with my own symptoms.

Just wondering...

Maybe most of us are readers vs posters

Welcome to PC Forums

[Skeezyks]

Hello ciderguy: I don't know which forums are the most active. Off-hand I would think perhaps Depression & perhaps Bipolar are right up there. A lot of members like to post about their therapists as well. So perhaps Psychotherapy might get a lot of traffic too. It would be interesting to see the statistics on this. Personally, the Skeezyks is nearly everywhere on PC... except that I don't do current events... & I also don't chat. (I don't currently post my own Threads either.) I do have the impression that many members just post a very few Threads & then move on, even if they don't actually close out their memberships.

[LiteraryLark]

I think bipolar group is the top hit. I never get anything answered in there because so many people post (because they're manic, apparently)

[*Laurie*]

I used to be quite active on PC, but I'm not so much anymore.The site can be triggering for me. Sometimes I come on PC and end up feeling more depressed and anxious than I had been feeling. It's really unfortunate.

So, that's where this person is I wonder if a lot of people feel the way I do, hence the lack of posts.

[unaluna]

I think some people were busy with the religious holidays, spring breaks at school, march madness, starting gardens and spring cleaning and getting outside more.

[amandalouise]

theres an easy way to know which forums are more active than others. each forum if you look to the right you will see numbers that represent how many views and how many posts that form has. I have found it varies from day to day, one day the depression forum will be more active other days its another one. my experience with watching the numbers each forum has been more active than another at some point through out the day, days weeks....

as for the difference between posts and views thats a part of how the website is set up. its search able by search engines and people dont have to be members to read the forums. there are lots of people around the world who do a google search and because psych central has information about both mental problems, symptoms and physical problems psych central may be one of their millions of search results google gives them. then they click on the link and read. some people dont bother registering, just keep coming to read what ever interests them or pertains to their problems.

Originally Posted by LauraBeth

I used to be quite active on PC, but I'm not so much anymore.The site can be triggering for me. Sometimes I come on PC and end up feeling more depressed and anxious than I had been feeling. It's really unfortunate.

So, that's where this person is I wonder if a lot of people feel the way I do, hence the lack of posts.

Yes, at this moment I feel as if I need to get away from here because of triggering. I came here earlier feeling angry. Now I'm feeling sad. Hopeless, again. Feeling as if there is not one single thing that I can do to improve this lonely and miserable existence.

I guess that my reaction to someone snapping at me would depend on my mood. My immediate reaction to feeling hurt, lately, has been to snap back with vengeance. Immediate self-righteous gratification but I usually feel bad afterward.

I don't really visit that often: just when I feel a need for at least one real human being to read what I've written, needn't matter if I receive replies. And I come here with specific questions. I just discovered in the past few days how to find the subscribed threads. That has made me more apt to return.

I understand your reasoning for not frequenting this site, though. Very much in agreement in re triggering.

Just a by the way, and I mean no offense: I don't know if Laura Beth is your name or a nickname, but I have always thought it a lovely combination of names. I dated a Laura Beth and that's exactly what she preferred to be addressed as... not Laura or Beth, but Laura Beth.

Now I'm making myself sadder. I started writing a cumulative goodbye letter to the four women that I loved in my life and couldn't stop crying after I had written their names, chronologically. I can't conjure up what it felt like to be in love but I know that when I was I was happy. I can't conjure that feeling of happiness, either. I do recall that love had so many different levels of intensity; from thinking of her when she was away to ravaging one another in the most humanly/beastly manner. It's accepted knowledge that men are more visual in desire but, for me, it was all about touch. I've always thought that the reason that any sort of pornography was always grotesque to me. I was always a fan of holding hands, of walking with arms around one another, of leaning into one another. It was a fine thing to have an intact, unscarred body. Now I'm a legless and scarred freak with a broken and sick mind. And so *******ed lonely.

See how quickly the trigger works? I'll dream of one of them tonight – Susan, Nancy, Chandra or Martha. And wake up with my heart pounding.

This, this life now, seems all the worse for having felt happiness for the first 30 years. 31 years. I'm really feeling sorry for myself now; I wouldn't exchange the happiness for a life of constant misery. I married Martha. I had the opportunity, two days before the marriage, to marry Chandra. That single choice would have made all the difference.

Ah, crap.

Originally Posted by Wandering Soul

I think Relationships and Communications forum and Cope with Emotions forum (beside Social Chat forum) generate most of the posts

Well, I guess that's why I 'see' so few people.

[*Laurie*]

Originally Posted by ciderguy

Yes, at this moment I feel as if I need to get away from here because of triggering. I came here earlier feeling angry. Now I'm feeling sad. Hopeless, again. Feeling as if there is not one single thing that I can do to improve this lonely and miserable existence.

I guess that my reaction to someone snapping at me would depend on my mood. My immediate reaction to feeling hurt, lately, has been to snap back with vengeance. Immediate self-righteous gratification but I usually feel bad afterward.

I don't really visit that often: just when I feel a need for at least one real human being to read what I've written, needn't matter if I receive replies. And I come here with specific questions. I just discovered in the past few days how to find the subscribed threads. That has made me more apt to return.

I understand your reasoning for not frequenting this site, though. Very much in agreement in re triggering.

Just a by the way, and I mean no offense: I don't know if Laura Beth is your name or a nickname, but I have always thought it a lovely combination of names. I dated a Laura Beth and that's exactly what she preferred to be addressed as... not Laura or Beth, but Laura Beth.

Now I'm making myself sadder. I started writing a cumulative goodbye letter to the four women that I loved in my life and couldn't stop crying after I had written their names, chronologically. I can't conjure up what it felt like to be in love but I know that when I was I was happy. I can't conjure that feeling of happiness, either. I do recall that love had so many different levels of intensity; from thinking of her when she was away to ravaging one another in the most humanly/beastly manner. It's accepted knowledge that men are more visual in desire but, for me, it was all about touch. I've always thought that the reason that any sort of pornography was always grotesque to me. I was always a fan of holding hands, of walking with arms around one another, of leaning into one another. It was a fine thing to have an intact, unscarred body. Now I'm a legless and scarred freak with a broken and sick mind. And so *******ed lonely.

See how quickly the trigger works? I'll dream of one of them tonight – Susan, Nancy, Chandra or Martha. And wake up with my heart pounding.

This, this life now, seems all the worse for having felt happiness for the first 30 years. 31 years. I'm really feeling sorry for myself now; I wouldn't exchange the happiness for a life of constant misery. I married Martha. I had the opportunity, two days before the marriage, to marry Chandra. That single choice would have made all the difference.

Ah, crap.

Yeah, the triggering thing is a big problem. I mean, I want to be supportive of people, but often feel so fragile myself that I am easily affected by others' depression, anxiety, and so on. Then I'm of no help to myself or anyone else.

It sounds like you, like so many of us, have an exceedingly sensitive mind.

Thank you, ciderguy, for the name compliment. It is my real name.